Color-chart.



I. VAN HEEST.

COLOR CHART.

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1,1,fifi. Patented June 22, 1915.

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COLOR-CHART.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1915.

Application filed October 7, 1914. Serial No. 865,551.

To all :whom it may concern Be 1t known that I, JACOB VAN Hnns'r, a cltlzen of the United States, residing at New Freedom, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Color-Charts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a painters color chart, designed particularly for the use of master painters and others as a guide and instructor in the art of mixing pigments for the production of paints of difierent colors and shades.

The art of mixing paint pigments is not well understood, even by professional master painters, and still less by workmen employed by them and others who, for economical or other reasons, do their own painting; and this art is rendered more or less ditficult owing to the numbers of arbitrarily named shades and colors on the market which vary from year to year largely according to the changes in colors and shades of dress goods and other fabrics. For this reason the use of ready-mixed paints has become quite common, owing to their convenience and the fact that any desired color or shade of previously prepared paint may be secured. Many of these paints are, however, of inferior quality, due to the use of inferior grades of pigments and oils, or of substitutes for the standard pigments, oil, etc.

The object of the present invention is to provide a chart covering any desired group or range of colors and shades, whereby any certain color or shade may be indicated and distinguished from others, a knowledge of the pigments entering into such color or shade determined, and proper information relative to the same or correlative colors or shades given so that the painter may prepare any required color or shade of paint from desired materials.

The accompanying drawings show in plan view a chart embodying the characteristic features of my invention.

The chart comprises a sheet of paper or other suitable material A, of any desired and suitable form. Upon the face of this sheet is printed a triangular space or field B, which is subdivided by vertical and horizontal lines B and B into vertical and horizontal rows or spaces, within which are arranged the color or shade indications, numbered in the present instance from i to 36, inclusive. These color indications may consist of strips or small pieces of material coated with the prepared material, or prepared for use in any other suitable way.

The vertical columns of the chart, which are numbered from 1 to 9, inclusive, are provlded with head spaces arranged along the base of the triangular field, the sides of which are arranged respectively in a vertical and a horizontal position. These head spaces contain the names of a number of primary or basic colors, the columns from 2 to 9, inclusive, respectively bearing the names Burnt sienna, Raw sienna, Chrome yellow, Chrome green, Raw umber, Burnt umber, Prussian blue, and Lamp black. The chart illustrated in the present exemplification is therefore designed to show these respective colors and the various shades, within certain limits, secured by their mixture or combination with each other. The various head spaces of the vertical columns are disposed in stepped order, and at the left of the sheet, within the spaces, below the first, of the column '1 appear designations pertaining to the horizontal columns, designated 2 to 9 inclusive, which designations are the same as the color designations arranged in the head spaces of the vertical columns, and disposed in exactly the same vertical order. Thus, it will be seen that while thefirst color indicating space of each vertical column shows the basic or primary color to which the same is devoted, the horizontal columns pertain particularly to the shades resulting from the use of such basic or primary colors with other basic or primary colors. As shown, the head space of each vertical column is followed by the color indication of the particular basic or primary color represented thereby, as in the case of the color indication 1 of column 2, Burnt sienna, while the second space of the column 3 bears the color indication 9 Raw sienna, whereas'in the second space bearing the color indication of the column 2, which is the first space of the second horizontal column, the color indication shown is the shade produced by a combination of burnt sienna with raw sienna, which system of shade designation or classification follows throughout the respective vertical and horizontal columns.

It will be observed that in the column 2 appears not only the primary color indination but also the color shades resulting from a mixture of such primary color, burnt sienna with each ofthe other primary colors, and that similar indications with respect to all the other primary colors and their shades, when combined each with the other, will be obtained by following out the vertical column under the color named or the horizontal column, or vice versa, where either of said columns is in itself incomplete.

It will be observed that by the arrange ment described the time required in finding and tracing out any primary color and any of its shades is reduced to the minimum, while compactness and economy of space is insured, since within thirty-six divisions the indications of eight primary colors and seven correlative shades pertaining to each primary color will be given, resulting in a reduction of the size of the chart over any ordinary arrangement, as well as economy in producing the same.

The chart may be arranged to give diiferent color groups, with their correlative shades, or to show in a single chart all of the new shades produced during any certain season, and it will be evident that by reference to the chart the color desired may not only be matched but its number obtained and an understanding of the colors of the pigments required to produce the same gained in a ready and convenient manner. understood that the colorsand their shades may be understood to have the indicated appearance when combined with any certain ground color, base or modifying color, such as white lead, etc. The painter, therefore, who desires to produce a certain shade, whose color combination he is unaware of, may readily and conveniently first find the shade upon the chart and then ascertain the names of the primary colors of which it is composed. V

The portion of the face of the chart not occupied by the field B may be subdivided into a space B to receive advertising or It is to be other appropriate matter, a space B to con tain the title of the chart or name of the concern issuing it, and a space 13 to contain directions for the use of the chart. The chart, or any accompanying book or literature, may contain matter to which the shade designating numerals may constitute keys, for giving the names of the respective colors as well as the amounts of the basic or primary colors entering into their respective compositions. By the use of the chart as a guide, any one, whether versed or not in the art of mixing paints, may acquire a knowledge of the color composition of any particular paint shade and ascertain how to mix it by use of the raw materials, thus enabling him to prepare a high grade paint at a comparatively low cost.

I claim V 1. A painters colorchart having a series of indicated color groups, arranged in vertical and horizontal rows, each consisting of a primary or basic color and shades produced by combination of the same with each of the other primary or basic colors.

2. A chart for indicating colors and shades and the required combination of colorsto' produce the same, comprising a triangular field divided into blocks or spaces arranged in vertical and horizontal rows,'the vertical rows having head spaces disposed in stepped order along the base of the field and containing the names of primary or basic colors, followed by representations'of such colors and shades of the same produced by combia nation with the other colors, the names of the primary colors being also arranged in vertical order.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

JACOB VAN nnn's r,

Witnesses:

W. H. BAILEY, JOHN BAILEY, Jr.

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Washington, D. 0. V 

